Meaning of spina | Babel Free

Definitions

1. a city in Cisalpine Gaul situated near the southernmost mouth of the Padus
   declension-1
2. a thorn or a thorny tree or shrub, such as whitethorn, hawthorn, or blackthorn
   declension-1
3. a thorn, spine, prickle
   declension-1
4. a fishbone
   declension-1
5. the backbone, spine
   declension-1
6. a low wall along the centre of a circus (racecourse); a barrier
   declension-1
7. a toothpick
   declension-1
8. thorns, difficulties, subtleties, perplexities in speaking and debating
   Classical-Latin, Medieval-Latin, declension-1, figuratively, in-plural
9. cares
   declension-1, figuratively, in-plural
10. errors
    declension-1, figuratively, in-plural

Equivalents

Examples

“Iter pigrōrum quasi sēpēs spīnārum; via iūstōrum absque offendiculō. The way of the slothful is as a hedge of thorns; the way of the just is without offence. (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.: 1752 CE)”

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